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In which it’s kind of a relief to be talking about a fictional apocalypse right now; Joe Madureira defines the look of the mid-late 1990s; Sunfire is less cheesecake than crepes Suzette; it all comes back to capes; Wild Child is more than he seems; Holocaust sucks about as much as you’d expect of someone who picked that code name; Jay has surprisingly strong feelings about Morph; Miles is all about judging some babies; resistance is fundamental to the X-Men’s identity within a superhero-universe paradigm; nobody deserves to be quarantined with Quentin Quire; and our two-week lead is making proofing these podcasts an increasingly surreal experience.

X-PLAINED:

• Several things Blink might have done but did not.
• The status quo as of mid-March, 2020
• Earth-295 (more) (again)
• Astonishing X-Men #1-4
• Our coverage of the core Age of Apocalypse series
• Age of Apocalypse as proof of concept
• The best character design of Earth-295
• Some guy named Rex
• A lake of blood which may or may not be figurative
• Sabretooth’s last-ish stand
• The revolutionary value of silliness
• Jay’s favorite Orwell quote
• The Infinite Processing Plant
• DefCon Armageddon
• A very cool fight scene
• Catharsis
• Mutants without the metaphor
• Best and worst X-Men to be quarantined with

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